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I have had this on replay on a side monitor all morning. These are the drones we just sold a bunch of to the Ukraine. I am left thinking about my work on Drone Recovery and the imbalance in our priorities in this country. ;-( http://dronerecovery.org/journal/a-drone-recovery-post-to-remember-the-kid/
Me on Facebook: See a friends work of art like it.
Facebook: Here is a flood of similar art day after day until your vomit and you'll never see your friend again.
Me on Mastodon: See a friends work of art and I like it.
Mastodon: Business as usual until friend posts another work of art and I see that and like that.
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Meanwhile, as mentioned, businesses are not just writing software to be dependent on OpenAI's propreitary APIs but retooling entire business models around it. Once they flocked to Facebook, then seemed confused when suddenly the audience they'd built up was Facebook's audience now and they had nothing except what Facebook gave them. When their relationship with OpenAI someday flips the same way, they'll be just as confused how it got to that point.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-to-use-chatgpt-creator-openai-to-help-create-some-of-its-content-11674752660
https://gizmodo.com/cnet-artificial-intelligence-writing-scandal-1850031292
Just because you can’t remember a time when you haven’t felt this way doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself to feeling it forever. https://annehelen.substack.com/p/layoff-brain
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We have finished the transition from monolith to Microsservices boss!
enshittification: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
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Every worker in every industry deserves a union, and tech right now is having a clear demonstration of how our lack of unions hurts us.
I just heard an exec say that it was "unfortunate" that we couldn't fire people faster in other parts of the world because of labor protections. Sit with that for a moment.
In the US unions are one of our very very few tools to give us any chance at all.
We need strong unions to push back against this sort of callous insensitivity backed by unchecked greed.
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Antarctic Biodiversity Data Portal API - The SCAR Antarctic Biodiversity Portal (biodiversity.aq) is an international effort that seeks to increase our knowledge and understanding of Antarctic and Southern Ocean biodiversity. - https://data.biodiversity.aq/api/v1.0/swagger/
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Getty API - As part of Getty's Open Access program, we're pleased to provide public access to much of our collection data via APIs. These APIs are the same ones that we use behind-the-scenes for our website, Getty Guide, and other key applications. - https://data.getty.edu/
Relevant regulatory movement I am keeping a close eye on in 2023. The Digital Services Oversight and Safety Act (DSOSA) and Platform Accountability and Transparency Act in the US. The Gonzalez v. Google and its potential impact on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the US. And in the EU, both of the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act.
I remember learning about hedge funds counting types of cars at intersections by malls to make bets on markets while in NYC. I read in WSJ today that there is a correlation between GDP and street lights viewed from satellites. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2019/09/satellite-images-at-night-and-economic-growth-yao
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot - Werner Herzog
It is such a let down when a link doesn't unfurl when pasted into Slack. It is like I walked into a room with a new outfit and nobody saw it.
Hour and half into work today and I have already had to play ball 3 times and tug o war twice with my Poppy dog. Off to a good start!
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